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When I was growing up, it was cigarettes. I got hooked when I was 12 but fortunately I was able to switch to vapes in the past few years. Kids are gonna do it,
by Clubber 3y ago
When I was growing up, it was cigarettes. I got hooked when I was 12 but fortunately I was able to switch to vapes in the past few years. Kids are gonna do it, you can't put that genie back in the bottle. I'm just glad it's a habit that won't kill them.
What are the available solutions? Throw the kids in jail? Shame them? Kick them out of school? All solutions way worse than nicotine patches.
- Levitz 3y agoI don't think I'm comfortable with the idea that kids will just get addicted to things and that's that.
- Clubber 3y agoYou don't have to be comfortable with it, but you do have to accept reality at some point. If you can come up with a solution that isn't worse than the problem, I'm all ears.
- likeclockwork 3y agoThen stop letting them run wild. Society can't be organized around what unsupervised children might do.
- MeImCounting 3y agoEh... No let kids more freedom but equip them with the skills and knowledge to choose. Kids are not property.
- theptip 3y agoNo need for a false dichotomy with complete apathy. I would apply moderate shame/disapproval on my kids for smoking cigarettes, but I struggle to get upset at hazard ratios as low as pure nicotine. Ultimately kids have to make some decisions, including some bad ones, in order to become adults. We are not talking about shooting heroin here.